Growbed

Raised planting beds for Valheim. Plant a whole bed in one press, watch the crop grow through four visible stages, and harvest the lot in one more press.

No more crouch-walking down a row of carrots planting them one at a time, and no more picking them one at a time either.

How it works

Build a growbed from the hammer, under Misc. Then:

• Use it to plant. It takes the first seeds in your inventory and fills as many slots as you have seeds for — if you only have two seeds, only two slots get planted, and only two plants appear.
• Look at it while it grows. The hover text tells you what is in it, how full it is, and how long is left.
• Use it again when it is ready to harvest the whole bed at once. The crops drop at your feet.
• Silver beds only: hold Shift and use to harvest and immediately replant in one motion, taking the seeds from your inventory.

Beds keep growing while you are away, remember what they are growing across save-and-reload, and work anywhere you can build — indoors, under a roof, in a cellar, wherever.

The four tiers

Tier	Slots	Cost	Station	Growth speed
Wooden	4	10 Wood, 4 Stone	—	2.2x
Bronze-Banded	6	4 Bronze, 10 Wood	Forge	1.8x
Iron	8	6 Iron, 2 Chain	Forge	1.6x
Silvered	12	8 Silver, 4 Wolf Pelt	Forge	1.3x

A crop in a bed grows slower than one in the ground

This is deliberate, and it is the one thing worth understanding before you build a farm around it.

A bed packs roughly twice as many plants into the same patch of ground as hand planting does. If they also grew at normal speed, even the starter bed would double your harvest per square metre, and every later tier would run away from there.

So each bed slows its crops down to compensate. What a growbed actually buys you is convenience — plant once, harvest once, and a tidy farm that does not sprawl — rather than more food per hour. Higher tiers claw back some of the speed and hold more, so a Silver bed does come out meaningfully ahead of a wooden one.

If you would rather they were simply faster, every number here is configurable.

Works with crop mods

Growbeds do not carry a fixed list of crops. They read what the game itself considers plantable when the world loads, so any crop another mod adds shows up as plantable in a bed with no patch needed. Tested alongside PlantEverything, whose extra crops are picked up automatically.

Settings

Everything is configurable, and every setting is admin-only and server-synced — on a server, the host's values are what everyone plays with.

Alongside global grow-time and yield multipliers, each tier has its own section where you can change how many slots it has, how fast it grows, how much it yields, what it costs to build, which station it needs, how sturdy it is, and how big it is. Tier changes take effect when the game restarts.

Multiplayer

Works on dedicated servers and in co-op. Everyone needs the mod — beds use custom models, so a vanilla client cannot see them. Clients and the server must be on the same minor version; mismatched versions refuse to connect rather than quietly disagreeing about how fast things grow.

Known quirks

• PlantEasily users: its bulk-harvest modifier defaults to Shift, which is also the Silver bed's harvest-and-replant. Using replant near loose crops will harvest those too. Rebind either one if that bothers you.
• Once a bed is planted you cannot top it up — it is locked until harvest. Otherwise you could plant one seed, wait for it to finish, then fill the rest for a free instant harvest.
• Growbed harvests do not benefit from ValheimPlus's pickable yield bonus, because the bed hands you the crop directly rather than making you pick it.

Installing

Install with a mod manager and BepInEx and Jotunn come along automatically. To do it by hand, drop Growbed.dll into BepInEx/plugins, with BepInExPack Valheim and Jotunn installed.

Safe to add to an existing world. Removing it will delete any beds you have built, along with whatever was growing in them.

Building it yourself

Source, build instructions and design notes are on GitHub.